We’re certainly reading folks’ suggestions, but our schedule is pretty set. Since we’re a pretty split-up group of volunteers, there’s some tighter coordination on our end to get everything going smoothly as I’m sure you can imagine!

Sorry to keep jumping back in here, but I just thought of another suggestion: can’t recall if any of the Waypoint staff are Soul Calibur fans, but Soul Calibur 6 drops on Friday, so maybe that could be something worth streaming?

Really enjoying Save Point thus far. There were a few jokes made on stream about the games they’re playing being a metaphor for the experience of immigrants that I was not OK with, however.

I don’t think it was the intent to be hurtful. Still, it made me question whether I wanted to stay on the stream. Of course it’s OK to joke in general or about the games but this crossed into a meta joke about the subject matter that made me uncomfortable.

Hey, y’all. We just wrapped on the mod side of the stream and can confirm that we raised $60,045.20 for the Florence Immigration & Refugee Rights Project! We’re gonna do a wrap-up post sometime but right now, Waypoint folks and mod staff gotta go sleep forever.

Thanks For Your Support!

Hey, folks! We closed out Waypoint Presents Save Point, our 72 (well, 74)-hour charity marathon, a few days ago. Thanks to your support, we officially ended the event with $60,045.20 raised and, in the days since, that’s risen to $60,460.69. I have no doubt that I’ll need to come back and edit if I try to keep that figure up-to-date. You can still go and donate to bit.ly/savepoint2018 if you want to support a great cause.

We can’t thank you all enough for helping us to make Save Point a success, between your viewing, signal boosting, and donating. As we reiterated throughout the stream, folks like you are the reason that we’ve been able to raise so much money for the Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project to help them support their clients. Your support is why they are able to do the important work that they do, helping adults and unaccompanied children in immigration detention in Arizona.

We set our goal at $10,000 thinking it would be lofty. Within two hours, y’all helped us smash it and then go on to raise over 600% of that initial figure. We didn’t clear our final desire ($69,420), but smashing through five goals on our path to $60,000 was a spectacular experience.

Special Thanks

While this was a team effort, there were a few specific people who we wanted to spotlight for taking the initiative and driving this the organisation of this event, particularly some of our community moderators.

Plus, @video_gh0st designed the Save Point logo and drafted some of the layout concepts!

@Niko did first-pass design splashes and concepts. We didn’t use any of these for the final stream or forum posts, but it really helped our direction and presentation.

@quantumdot worked on the streaming side of things, including creating consistent layouts, interstitials, and technical guidance for the mod stream. He also worked to get the donation plugins in line with the Waypoint aesthetic, including programming a custom donation bar.

@2Mello provided the mod team with a cache of his own music to use for our segments.

All of these people deserve huge thanks, along with all the other mods who jumped into chat and did their part to make this go smoothly.

On the staff side, the mod team would like to thank @austin_walker, @joel, and @Cado for taking the time out to attend our weekend meetings, help us work through our concerns, and expand our initial pitch into what Waypoint Presents Save Point became. During the event, @Cado and @NatalieWatson did a ton of production work and helped us put together incentives and raffles through Tiltify.

What Next?

Well, there are a few more things that need doing on our side.

Raffle Prizes

I can confirm that these have now gone out, so check your Junk and Spam folders if you entered. If you haven’t received anything, sorry – someone else drew the lucky straw!

Archives

There’s two sets of archives for this event – Waypoint staff and the mod team.

Natalie is hard at work getting the archives up over on Waypoint’s YouTube channel. Obviously, that’s a substantial amount of work, so it may be some time coming. For now, you can find the VOD here. It’s a single 32 hour segment, so definitely fair if you want to wait for YouTube.

Apart from this, our work here is done! We hope you enjoyed the event while also helping to provide information about the important work that the Florence Project does.

If folks have any favourite clips, moments, or otherwise from the event, we’d love for you to share them here so we can come back to them later.

Fun Facts & Mod Archive

As of 10/23/2018, we had 1516 donations, with 1070 unique donors.

During the mod section, we played a short pre-recorded video from Megaman X7 from @PennyB. We used this as a backup in case any of our segments went awry. They also recorded a Megaman X6 video we didn’t use, which you can find here – cut content!

This is it, it’s the final weekend of the Waypoint Community UT 2004 Server! I would like to thank everyone who donated to the incentive and glad we were able to raise all that money. If you want to play some games, feel free to jump in. Want to change the mode and map? Let us know here or check out the Discord.
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